Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.It turns what we have into enough, and more.It turns denial into acceptance,chaos to order, confusion to clarity.It can turn a meal into a feast,a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.Gratitude makes sense of our past,brings peace for today,and creates a vision for tomorrow.- Melody Beattie

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Football is like life - it requires perseverance,self-denial, hard work, sacrifice,dedication and respect for authority.- Vince Lombardi

Self denial is an indulgence to the ego.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How often it is that the angry man rages denial ofwhat his inner self is telling him.- Frank Herbert

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life,few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunityto strive or even to hope,by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.- Stephen Jay Gould

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.- Edwin Louis Cole

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.- Susie Orbach

There is no more defiant denial of one man's abilityto possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.- Gail Sheehy

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankfulfor any thing than I have been of late for the necessityI am under of self-denial in many respects.- David Brainerd

I found myself serving a sentence of public denialfrom the very second the raid on my apartment happened.- Jock Sturges

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people,and entombs the hope of the race.- Charles Bradlaugh

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.- Simon Travaglia

It's not denial.I'm just selective about the reality I accept.- Bill Watterson

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has beenmore important than having the ability to vote.Unfortunately, as history has shown,the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy.- Jan Schakowsky

I cannot consistently, with self respect,do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violatean act which seems to me to be a denial of everythingwhich ideally and in practice I hold sacred.- Roger Nash Baldwin

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it.To maintain it in high places costs self-denial;in all places it is liable to opposition,but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.- Charles Simmons

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats,Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changesare necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.- Jim Sensenbrenner

I put up a huge wall of denial.It was years before I was able to break through it...accepting that your child has a disability,especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed,is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.- Anne Ford

The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act;and if we have no right to act,then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North,for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.- Angelina Grimke

The schools would fail through their silence,the Church through its forgiveness, and the home throughthe denial and silence of the parents.The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.- Simon Wiesenthal

I think the media has been in denial just like theparty regulars have been in denial.They just don't understand that the government thatwe have today is not what the people want as a government.- Carl Paladino

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through,full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind,finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.- Mikhail Bakunin

I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great senseof humor about herself and an amazing ability to slipinto complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.- Cathy Guisewite

All forms of tampering with human beings,getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern,all thought control and conditioning is,therefore, a denial of that in men which makes themmen and their values ultimate.- Isaiah Berlin

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up,as were John and Christine.By the time Rumours was being recorded,things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use.It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.- Lindsey Buckingham

I leave no trace of wings in the air,but I am glad I have had my flight.- Rabindranath Tagore

There is beauty and adventure in the commonplacefor those with eyes to see beyond.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselvesto recognize how good things really are.- Marianne Williamson

As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."- Mary Anne Radmacher

When a person doesn't have gratitude,something is missing in his or her humanity.A person can almost be defined byhis or her attitude toward gratitude.- Elie Wiesel

Everything is a miracle,not just the beautiful and lovely things.- Anonymous

My joy is the golden sunsetgiving thanks for another day.Gratitude itself is a source of joy.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Receive ALL of Life with Thanksgiving -I have gratitude for EVERYTHINGthat has ever occurred to bring me to this moment.I give thanks for the joys and the sufferings,the moments of peace and the flashes of anger,the compassion and the indifference,the roar of my courage and the cold sweat of my fear.I accept gratefully the entirety of my past and my present life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The invariable mark of wisdom is tosee the miraculous in the common.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our "Rainbows and Butterflies" are the small miracles of our life -the little things that are so easy to overlook,yet so awe inspiring when we take a momentto notice and to pay attention.Give thanks for the rainbows, for the butterflies,for all God's creatures - large and small,for the bright blue sky and the soft fog and the gentle rain,for the tree veiled in the season's first frost,for the baby's laugh,for the touch of a hand and the whispered "I love you."- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He is richest who is content with the least,for content is the wealth of nature.- Socrates

We can only be said to be truly alive in those momentswhen our hearts are conscious of our treasures.- Thornton Wilder